Quotes by Jose Antonio Vargas

Jose Antonio Vargas

A broken immigration system means broken families means broken lives. That’s what is at stake.

Broken

Immigration

Mean

Film, as any immigrant will tell you, television and movies is the way we make sense of America when we first got here.

America

Firsts

Way

For Filipino Americans, it’s a battle for recognition, for identity in a culture where, for the mainstream, Asians tend to fade into a monochromatic racialized ‘other.’

Battle

Culture

Identity

For some people, I got away with something. And you know what? That’s a fair thing to say, for them. I’m not saying I agree with that, but I can see how they can say that. But it’s a matter of just like…you know, I’m really fortunate. As a journalist, I don’t have to agree with you to talk to you. My job is to figure out why you think the way you think. I want to get to the root of why you think the way you think. That’s what I find most fascinating as a storyteller.

Like You

People

Thinking

Giving people like me a green card, a passport, and a driver’s license? That’s not going to be the end of the immigration conversation and debate in this country. It’s like saying we elected Barack Obama president, so all of the racial problems are done. Right? I mean in some ways, the immigration conversation is just starting. Which is why when we started this campaign, we didn’t call it Define Immigrant, we called it Define American. That’s the question. That’s what’s at stake.

Country

Giving

Mean

I always felt like I had the word “illegal” tattooed on my forehead.

Foreheads

Illegal

Tattooed

I feel like people expect me to give them easy answers, but there aren’t really easy answers. There are only harder questions. And unless we get to the harder questions part, about what this conversation is really about…of course I want an immigration bill to pass. I want people to have a driver’s license and work permits and green cards and passports. But this conversation transcends this bill. We’re not going to have a perfect bill. This is politics. I feel like my job is instead of giving people easy answers, my job is to actually to ask people to probe deeper.

Giving

People

Perfect

I grew up in newsrooms. I’ve been in newsrooms since I was 17 years old. Journalism has been like my church; it’s been like my identity.

Church

Identity

Years

I think I’ve always been paranoid.

Paranoid

Thinking

I’m not a politician. I’m not a policy wonk. I was a political reporter, but that’s not really what turns me on. What turns me on is how people perceive the issue and how people see people like me.

Issues

People

Political

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Battle

Bigger

Broken

Calling

Church

Cop

Country

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Culture

Daughter

Doe

Dreamer

Film

Firsts

Foreheads

Giving

Helping

Identity

Illegal

Immigration

Independent

Interesting

Issues

Like You

Long

Mean

Media

Missing

Mom

Mother

Narrative

Offense

Orwellian

Paranoid

People

Perfect

Political

Reality

Something Bigger Than Yourself

Son

Stand For Something

Tattooed

Technology

Thinking

Waiting

Way

Years

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Quotes by Jose Antonio Vargas

Jose Antonio Vargas

A broken immigration system means broken families means broken lives. That’s what is at stake.

Film, as any immigrant will tell you, television and movies is the way we make sense of America when we first got here.

For Filipino Americans, it’s a battle for recognition, for identity in a culture where, for the mainstream, Asians tend to fade into a monochromatic racialized ‘other.’

I always felt like I had the word “illegal” tattooed on my forehead.

I grew up in newsrooms. I’ve been in newsrooms since I was 17 years old. Journalism has been like my church; it’s been like my identity.

I think I’ve always been paranoid.

I’m not a politician. I’m not a policy wonk. I was a political reporter, but that’s not really what turns me on. What turns me on is how people perceive the issue and how people see people like me.

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